Saturday, March 17, 2007

Church-going, hollow-hearted Prosperity

It is not scientific doubt, not atheism, not pantheism, not agnosticism, that in our day and in this land is likely to quench the light of the gospel. It is a proud, sensuous, selfish, luxurious, church-going, hollow-hearted prosperity.

—Frederic D. Huntington, in Forum magazine, 1890
It seems to me that not much has changed in 117 years.